<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-bi6gxh9e" style="margin-bottom:8px;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span class="gmail-d2edcug0 gmail-hpfvmrgz gmail-qv66sw1b gmail-c1et5uql gmail-lr9zc1uh gmail-jq4qci2q gmail-a3bd9o3v gmail-b1v8xokw gmail-oo9gr5id" style="line-height:1.3333;max-width:100%;min-width:0px;font-family:inherit;word-break:break-word"><span style="font-family:inherit"><span style="font-weight:600"><span class="gmail-pq6dq46d gmail-tbxw36s4 gmail-knj5qynh gmail-kvgmc6g5 gmail-ditlmg2l gmail-oygrvhab gmail-nvdbi5me gmail-sf5mxxl7 gmail-gl3lb2sf gmail-hhz5lgdu" style="margin:0px 1px;height:16px;width:16px;font-weight:normal;display:inline-flex;vertical-align:middle;font-family:inherit"><img height="16" width="16" alt="🦍" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t16/1.5/16/1f98d.png" style="border: 0px;"></span> Hello! Anyone here knows a female gorilla named 'Koko'?<br></span></span></span><span style="font-weight:600;font-family:inherit">Does any ASL signer or anyone understand these signs?</span></div><ul class="gmail-bi6gxh9e gmail-aov4n071 gmail-fjf4s8hc gmail-mf5omzu7" style="margin:8px 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><li><div class="gmail-bi6gxh9e" style="margin-bottom:8px;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-d2edcug0 gmail-hpfvmrgz gmail-qv66sw1b gmail-c1et5uql gmail-lr9zc1uh gmail-jq4qci2q gmail-a3bd9o3v gmail-b1v8xokw gmail-oo9gr5id" style="line-height:1.3333;max-width:100%;min-width:0px;font-family:inherit;word-break:break-word">Koko was a female western lowland gorilla and was born at the San Francisco Zoo and spent most of her life with Francine Patterson, her ASL instructor and caregiver, in Woodside, California, at The Gorilla Foundation's preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains.</span></div></li><li><div class="gmail-bi6gxh9e" style="margin-bottom:8px;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-d2edcug0 gmail-hpfvmrgz gmail-qv66sw1b gmail-c1et5uql gmail-lr9zc1uh gmail-jq4qci2q gmail-a3bd9o3v gmail-b1v8xokw gmail-oo9gr5id" style="line-height:1.3333;max-width:100%;min-width:0px;font-family:inherit;word-break:break-word">I'm deeply sorry for her that she passed away 3 years ago. She was a unique gorilla who could communicate using her own sign language, GorillaSL, which is a variation of ASL. Anyway, a gorilla's hand morphology differs slightly from that of a human, with thicker fingers and shorter thumbs. So, Koko's hand gestures could not match the human hand gestures accurately as a result of this.</span></div></li><li><div class="gmail-bi6gxh9e" style="margin-bottom:8px;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-d2edcug0 gmail-hpfvmrgz gmail-qv66sw1b gmail-c1et5uql gmail-lr9zc1uh gmail-jq4qci2q gmail-a3bd9o3v gmail-b1v8xokw gmail-oo9gr5id" style="line-height:1.3333;max-width:100%;min-width:0px;font-family:inherit;word-break:break-word">This following sign literature is transcribed from her speech messaging to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, delivering a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on the subject of Climate Change.</span></div></li><li><div class="gmail-bi6gxh9e" style="margin-bottom:8px;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-d2edcug0 gmail-hpfvmrgz gmail-qv66sw1b gmail-c1et5uql gmail-lr9zc1uh gmail-jq4qci2q gmail-a3bd9o3v gmail-b1v8xokw gmail-oo9gr5id" style="line-height:1.3333;max-width:100%;min-width:0px;font-family:inherit;word-break:break-word">Although I cannot verify that she actually expressed these long sentences or that the words were human-edited in the video, it is undeniable that her GorillaSL communication is not worthless and is still significant in spreading environmental awareness.</span></div></li></ul><div><font color="#050505" face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><img src="cid:ii_ksr2qeji0" alt="Koko speech.png" width="452" height="414"><br></div><div><font color="#050505" face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#050505" face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><u><b>Description</b></u></font></div><div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap">"Koko as the Voice of Nature" - A Gorilla Sign Language (GSL) speech, which the language was derived from American Sign Language (ASL), written in Sutton SignWriting</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap">Video transcribed: <span style="font-family:inherit"><a class="gmail-oajrlxb2 gmail-g5ia77u1 gmail-qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 gmail-r7d6kgcz gmail-rq0escxv gmail-nhd2j8a9 gmail-nc684nl6 gmail-p7hjln8o gmail-kvgmc6g5 gmail-cxmmr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</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap">"(I am) gorilla. (I am) flowers, animals. (I am) nature. Man, (Koko) loves. The earth (Koko) loves. (But) man stupid. Stupid! (Koko) sorry. (Koko) cry. Time hurry! Fix the earth! Help the earth! Hurry! Protect (the earth). Nature see. Thank you."</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap">Who is Koko?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-pq6dq46d gmail-tbxw36s4 gmail-knj5qynh gmail-kvgmc6g5 gmail-ditlmg2l gmail-oygrvhab gmail-nvdbi5me gmail-sf5mxxl7 gmail-gl3lb2sf gmail-hhz5lgdu" style="margin:0px 1px;height:16px;width:16px;display:inline-flex;vertical-align:middle;font-family:inherit"><img height="16" width="16" alt="☝" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tc7/1.5/16/261d.png" style="border: 0px;"></span> Hanabiko Koko (1971–2018) was a female western lowland gorilla. Koko was born at the San Francisco Zoo and lived most of her life in Woodside, California, at The Gorilla Foundation's preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-pq6dq46d gmail-tbxw36s4 gmail-knj5qynh gmail-kvgmc6g5 gmail-ditlmg2l gmail-oygrvhab gmail-nvdbi5me gmail-sf5mxxl7 gmail-gl3lb2sf gmail-hhz5lgdu" style="margin:0px 1px;height:16px;width:16px;display:inline-flex;vertical-align:middle;font-family:inherit"><img height="16" width="16" alt="✌" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/te8/1.5/16/270c.png" style="border: 0px;"></span> Her instructor and caregiver, Francine Patterson, reported that Koko had an active vocabulary of more than 1,000 signs of what Patterson calls "Gorilla Sign Language" (GSL). This puts Koko's vocabulary at the same level as a three-year-old human. In contrast to other experiments attempting to teach sign language to non-human primates, Patterson simultaneously exposed Koko to spoken English from an early age. It was reported that Koko understood approximately 2,000 words of spoken English, in addition to the signs.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap">Sign with Koko!: <a href="https://www.koko.org/kids4koko/signing" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.koko.org/kids4koko/signing</a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap">Link to SignPuddle Online: <span style="font-family:inherit"><a class="gmail-oajrlxb2 gmail-g5ia77u1 gmail-qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 gmail-r7d6kgcz gmail-rq0escxv gmail-nhd2j8a9 gmail-nc684nl6 gmail-p7hjln8o gmail-kvgmc6g5 gmail-cxmmr5t8 gmail-oygrvhab gmail-hcukyx3x gmail-jb3vyjys gmail-rz4wbd8a gmail-qt6c0cv9 gmail-a8nywdso gmail-i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr gmail-f1sip0of gmail-lzcic4wl gmail-py34i1dx gmail-gpro0wi8" href="https://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/searchword.php?ui=1&sgn=5&sid=280&sTrm=Koko%20as%20the%20Voice%20of%20Nature&type=any&sTxt&sSrc&fbclid=IwAR2z9L2ZS4gc0Smd7gCW7R_bml5RgsyXmMYm6bMbgpibM3qDLQxtgPnyHoU" rel="nofollow" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none;outline:none;list-style:none;border-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:transparent;text-align:inherit;display:inline;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit">https://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/searchword.php?ui=1&sgn=5&sid=280&sTrm=Koko+as+the+Voice+of+Nature&type=any&sTxt=&sSrc=</a></span>&</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap">References:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(5,5,5);white-space:pre-wrap">1. <span style="font-family:inherit"><a class="gmail-oajrlxb2 gmail-g5ia77u1 gmail-qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 gmail-r7d6kgcz gmail-rq0escxv gmail-nhd2j8a9 gmail-nc684nl6 gmail-p7hjln8o gmail-kvgmc6g5 gmail-cxmmr5t8 gmail-oygrvhab gmail-hcukyx3x gmail-jb3vyjys gmail-rz4wbd8a gmail-qt6c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